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I think that the best apple is probably a brownie apple because it's quite

really like you think the same things again and again and again and again and

again I spend a lot of time thinking about like fruit.

I wonder if I could read like blue dogs exist. They might exist, blue whales exist, or white whales exist.

Oh my God, the sound that for this is high enough. I wonder if Mel can do anything with this. I wonder

if he's going to get it. Like how much data is in my brain. I'm Alex Laffbridge and you're listening

to crowd science from the BBC World Service. What you just heard there was my

noisy brain. Luckily, only I can normally hear it, but this week's listener wonders

if this will always be the case. My name is Daniel.

I live in London.

I'm originally from Germany.

My question is whether we can make machines read our thoughts.

So why are you interested in this? It was about a decade ago that there was an article about a monkey being connected to a robotic arm that the monkey could control through her thoughts, which I thought actually sci-fied astonishing.

And then it got quiet and in recent times I have seen a flurry of activity on this whole subject of neural interfaces and

you know modern technology, brain implants and I'm sort of being fascinated but also scared by it and I wonder how far is this technology come what can we do with it?

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